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Nevin ":-]" Liber (nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU) wrote:
: In article <19960201.11A2980.E21F@olympus.net>, dons@olympus.net (Don
: Schmelling) wrote:
: 
: > And once again, I must ask the question, but how are you runing more than
: > one program at once in a cooperative multitasking system, while a program
: > like that one is being run.
: 
: If I ever have an occasion to run a brain-dead program like void
: main(void) { for (;;); }, I'll let you know.  It isn't a very interesting
: question to me, since it just doesn't come up in Real Life.  If you wish
: to pay me to test brain dead programs on a Mac, I'd be more than happy to
: oblige.

I would not pay you to do any programming.
What is this facination with the term "Real Life?"  Even an animation like
Bugs Bunny is done in "Real Life."
The question has in fact come up in real life.  It came up in this thread.
: 
: > The program never tells the os it is done
: > with the cpu and just uses up all of the cpu.
: 
: Which is, of course, not true.  Interrupts still occur.

I never said that you could not break out of this program.
I was attempting to say, that while this program is running
you are not multitasking.  Now perhaps eventually an interupt
can take place, but for all the time between then you are
not multitasking you are running ONE TASK.
:
: > If you are only running one
: > task that gets all of the cpu then you are not multitasking.
: 
: And I have yet to find a reason to run programs this badly written.  Is
: this really what you use your Amiga for??

That really is not the issue.  The issue is that a badly written program
can hog the cpu on a CMT system while on a PMT system the program is
given a certain amount of cpu.  Of course a program like this does not
accomplish anything productive.

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